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I got a music of star trek cd for my birthday back in the early 2000's, i listened to it a couple of times, enjoyed it, and then put it away in a drawerand then forgot about it

flash forward to 2014.

I recently found the CD while rummaging through said drawer.

I have seen the option in STO for using you own music in the audio options tab, but have balked at using it because the only options are for winamp and itunes

I stopped using winamp after AOL ruined ICQ, Netscape and (imo) winamp.

And I also refuse to sell me soul to the evil Apple empire and install itunes.

so i was wondering if there was a way to add another mediaplayer, in my case Windows Media Player, to the player list in STO. I would prefer just to use the CD than haviing to burn MP3's of the CD. if there is a way to get the music player to play the CD instead of MP3, WMA or whatever that would be great.

Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,966 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Step by step:
    1. Hit Escape until you've got the main menu.
    2. Click Options.
    3. Click Audio.
    4. Set Music Volume to 0%.
    5. Turn on media player of choice.
    6. Press play.
    "Great War! / And I cannot take more! / Great tour! / I keep on marching on / I play the great score / There will be no encore / Great War! / The War to End All Wars"
    — Sabaton, "Great War"
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  • generaldisaster#4313 generaldisaster Member Posts: 374 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Maybe..... but i would lack any sort of track selection capability
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  • hyplhypl Member Posts: 3,719 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    I'm not even sure if the in-game music player still works... :confused:
  • centersolacecentersolace Member Posts: 11,178 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    hypl wrote: »
    I'm not even sure if the in-game music player still works... :confused:

    I haven't used it in years.
  • latiasracerlatiasracer Member Posts: 680 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Here, have a look at this : http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/19356/add-global-hotkeys-to-windows-media-player/

    I don't really use it much, as i like STO's music, but from what I've used of it's works decently enough, although i would rebind the keys as the default combinations are a little complicated if you are in the middle of battle!

    Personally, i have them set to my numberpad but i guess you can set them to whatever you like!
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,966 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Maybe..... but i would lack any sort of track selection capability

    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=create+playlist+in+Windows+Media+Player
    "Great War! / And I cannot take more! / Great tour! / I keep on marching on / I play the great score / There will be no encore / Great War! / The War to End All Wars"
    — Sabaton, "Great War"
    VZ9ASdg.png

    Check out https://unitedfederationofpla.net/s/
  • generaldisaster#4313 generaldisaster Member Posts: 374 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    it has been a realy long time since i have played any music on my pc, but i don't think you can create a playlist for CD tracks. i will have to double check. but if the builtin custom music thing no longer work, the whole thing might be mute.

    btw i love your signature quote, latiasracer

    also "Windows Media Player has a slew of keyboard shortcuts that work only when the media player is active, but these shortcuts stop working once WMP is no longer in focus or minimized....." -- taken from the howtogeek link
    Star Treking, across the universe. Only going forward because we can't find reverse...
  • kamiyama317kamiyama317 Member Posts: 1,295 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    hypl wrote: »
    I'm not even sure if the in-game music player still works... :confused:

    I use Winamp and it still works with STO. I don't know what's wrong with Winamp - I didn't even know that they were affiliated with AOL.
  • generaldisaster#4313 generaldisaster Member Posts: 374 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    it happened quite a while ago. i forget exactly what the deal was either AOL bought NullSoft, or bought rights to the software, either way, yeah AOL owns the winamp.
    after what did to turned netscape, (the one of the first web browsers for consumer use, b4 IE even OS it was first on was windows 3.1) after AOL bought netscape, they maintained it for a while but then started pulling all sorts of shenanigans. at the end, right before they stopped making netscape they scrapped all the innards and started using what was (then) s buggy version of what would eventually turn into firefox. after two bad versions and a version withdrawl, they killed netscape navigator. after AOL, they also started doing "value-added bundling" -- read useess software you did not want or ask for.

    AOL pulled similiar TRIBBLE with ICQ which back in the day (starting with win95) was a really great instant messenger. first they broke up ICQ into components. and then they invalidated the old versions of ICQ, and started charging people for various compnents of the software, which used to be included with ICQ and free. then they added the give us mone and we will remove ads from your icq client. gimmick, previously there were no ads in ICQ. it had been 100% free. also the last time i used ICQ it tried to install what was then a blleding edge emerging threat, SPYWARE!! I don't know if ICQ is still around or not, but i bet it isn't any better than it was before AOL got it's hands on it.

    then theres winamp. I havent even looked at winamp since aol bought it, but i bet there is now a "premium" version of winamp. i bet it also has ads now too. Winamp used to be for the most GPL. and it was 100% free and just about every plugin was free too.

    I used winamp back when the mp3 format was the newest thing on the block. everyone that had a 56k modem was downloading mp3s "it's like a wav file but better. you can listen to the music while it is downloading" -- qoute from friend long ago.
    streaming mp3 had yet to hit the scene, so this was big news at the time among those my age.
    anyway i am willing to bet that the winamp i know was better than todays winamp by aol

    "Nullsoft was sold to AOL (formerly known as America Online) on June 1, 1999, and thereafter existed as a subsidiary of America Online" -- nullsoft wiki

    ICQ LLC is an instant messaging computer program that was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company Mirabilis, which was acquired by America Online (AOL), -- icq wiki on this page, you can also see some of the TRIBBLE aol pulled on icq users

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Navigator -- a good read on the first publicly availible web browser, it's fall, and the impact it is still having on todays internet
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  • zbzznzbzzn Member Posts: 221 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    You might be able to use foobar2000 with the foo_winamp_spam component (or similar) to allow control from within the game. I haven't tested this, so I can't say if it will work or not but it's worth a try.
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